Carl Prantl

Carl Anton Eugen Prantl (born September 10, 1849 in Munich , † February 24, 1893 in Breslau ), also Karl Anton Eugen Prantl , was a Bavarian , German botanist and forest scientist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Prantl ".

Live and act

Prantl studied in Munich. In 1870 he was with the dissertation Das Inulin . A PhD contribution to plant physiology . He then worked for Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli and Julius Sachs . In 1873 he was at the University of Würzburg habilitation . In 1880 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1877 he became a professor at the Aschaffenburg Forestry School , and in 1889 at the University of Breslau , where he also became director of the botanical garden. Prantl worked particularly on cryptogams . One of his most important works was the multi-volume edition The Natural Plant Families , which he published together with Adolf Engler .

He was the son of the philosopher Carl von Prantl .

Honors

The plant genus Prantleia Mez from the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae) is named after him .

Fonts

Textbook of botany (7th edition, Leipzig 1887)
Investigations into the morphology of vascular cryptogams (Leipzig 1875 and 1881, 2 booklets)
Excursion flora for the Kingdom of Bavaria (Stuttgart 1884)
Carl Prantl and Adolf Engler [eds.]: The natural plant families (Leipzig, since 1887)

literature

Ekkehard Höxtermann: Prantl, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 673 f. ( Digitized version ).
Ernst Wunschmann: Prantl, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 106 f.

Web links

Commons : Karl Anton Eugen Prantl - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Member Post by Karl Prantl in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed October 13, 2015.
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carl Prantl at the IPNI

Individual evidence

^ List of members Leopoldina, Karl Prantl
^ German National Library: Data set on Carl von Prantl , accessed on August 28, 2017
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Prantl, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Prantl, Carl Anton Eugen; Prantl, Karl Anton Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Dutch botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	February 24, 1893
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] List of members Leopoldina, Karl Prantl

[2] German National Library: Data set on Carl von Prantl , accessed on August 28, 2017

[Burkhardt_2018-3] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .